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BCSE Business Partners Carrie & Brandon are always looking for ways to keep us current with the trends of the industry. This year is no different, as they recently traveled to IRCE where they were able to meet with some of our customers as well as X-Cart Staff. It’s always exciting for us to be able to meet the people that have been a part of our business for years! Not only was it a great time learning about some very interesting new technology, but socializing with those that are an important part of our company always makes the trip worthwhile. Stay tuned for updates on what we learned at the conference and how it can help you grow your business!
It might not seem intuitive, but applying psychological concepts to your website design can be beneficial. The main goal of a website is to interact with customers. Psychology studies how people (your customers) process information. This article provides 5 principles that can be helpful to make your website more intuitive to users.
Read more here: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/235923
Looking for numbers on Content ROI? This article has an infographic that approaches several different types of content and evaluates their ROI from a number of perspectives.
Read more here: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/236182
Sometimes in the realm of customer service, it might be necessary to say no. This is a great article about when it might be appropriate to go this route, and furthermore, why it can actually be beneficial for a business. There are also some great tips about how to go about saying no in a tactful and customer-oriented manner.
Read more here: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/236153
We are cranking out X-cart upgrades! One programmer alone is doing three x-cart upgrade go-lives in a span of only 4 days this week! I think that’s a record for one programmer!
Summer is the perfect time to get your X-cart stores upgraded and ready for the Holiday Shopping Season! Contact Us Now for a quote!
We have a very tried and tested method for upgrading X-cart. Check out our steps to ensure minimal downtime and minimal issues!
- Install the target version of X-cart
- Do a database upgrade of your current site and put it in the new X-cart
- Skin the target version of X-cart
- Install any modules you need/want
- Convert any customizations you want to keep
- Test the upgrade
- Once you’ve also tested and reviewed, we schedule the upgrade go-live
- Do a ‘dry run’ upgrade a day or two before the real go-live. This is where we pretend we’re going live. This helps find any potential issues that might arise when going live for real.
- On upgrade day we close your store for about 1 hour, sometimes 2 while we do the final database upgrade to catch all new orders, customers, etc. and go live!
Check out our visitor we had today at BCSE! We found this really cool looking moth under Gary’s truck while coming back from lunch. Anyone know what it is?
Want to meet the Owners of BCSE?
Come Join us at IRCE 2014!
We will be attending IRCE again this year! It’s the world’s largest eCommerce event! You can get great tips and tricks to moving your eCommerce site to the next level!
We will be also hanging out with the X-cart gang and other 3rd Party Developers at their Annual X-cart Beer meeting. There are only a few tickets left! Join us June 12, 2014 as we socialize, answer questions about eCommerce and our business.
We hope to see you there!
Here we are in April 2014 right after I completed the Triathlon and after Brandon completed a Mudrun at the OU Race for a Reason charity event.
Left to Right: Jeremy (mommymakeup.com), Alex (X-cart.com), Carrie & Brandon (bcsengineering.com) at IRCE 2013
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Saturday was a great day for a Triathlon and our Triathletes Carrie & Lynn both had a super day! Carrie posted her fastest swim time ever and finished in 02:09:18.970! Lynn’s goal was to finish in under 2 hours and she blew that out of the water with a finish time of 01:54:54.527! We couldn’t be more proud of their accomplishments!!
Carrie waving on her way back from the bike and heading to the run area!
Brandon of BCSE also participated in the Race for a reason and decided at the last minute to do the Mud Run! He finished with a time of 00:55:09! The Mud Run is a 4.5. mile run that goes through the ROTC challenge course and finishes at a slip-in-slide.
Over 1,000 people participated in the Race for a Reason Tri/Du, 5K, Mud Run, and 3K Walk and over $100,000 was raised for 87 different causes; 244 of those participants braved the Tri/Du. What a fantastic day full of personal achievements topped off with the great feeling of knowing that many worthy charities benefited from all of these efforts!
Carrie & Lynn post race, those smiles tell it all!
Left to Right: Lynn Hanna (of BCSE), Deb Murray (friend), Carrie Saunders (of BCSE), Brandon Saunders (of BCSE – Did the Mud Run!)
